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<p>Not true. Cornell has big classes, too; 18.3% of its classes have 50 or more students, compared to 14.5% at Cal and 18.1% at Michigan. Of the three, Cal does have more super-large classes-- 8.5% of its classes have 100+ students, compared to 7.4% at Michigan and 6.6% at Cornell, but they’re still roughly in the same ballpark. There’s a common misconception that if a school is private, it won’t have large classes. In Cornell’s case, that’s just flatly wrong. There are many reasons to like Cornell, but small classes isn’t one of them. When I visited there with my D, the tour guides actually boasted that the largest class on campus had 1300 students. That’s more students in a single classroom than there were on the entire campus at the small LAC D finally chose to attend.</p>
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<p>Actually, I hear about this problem much more at Cal and other units in the UC system than at Michigan. Not so say it doesn’t happen at Michigan, but I don’t think it’s nearly as common, and I don’t think you can generalize on the Cal experience. (For that matter, my D had trouble getting into a couple of popular classes she wanted to take at her tiny LAC; it can happen anywhere).</p>